Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has approached Gujarat Excessive Court docket in search of a evaluation of its current order setting apart the Central Data Fee’s directive to the Gujarat College to supply data on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diploma to the AAP nationwide convener.
One of many key contentions raised by Kejriwal is that opposite to Gujarat College’s declare that Modi’s diploma is out there on-line, no such diploma is out there on the college’s web site. Following a short listening to on Friday, Justice Biren Vaishnav admitted Kejriwal’s evaluation petition and stored it for additional listening to on June 30.
The HC issued a rule to the Gujarat College, Central authorities and former Chief Data Commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu. In March, Justice Vaishnav had allowed Gujarat College’s attraction in opposition to the CIC order and had additionally imposed a value of ₹25,000 on Kejriwal.
In April 2016, then CIC Acharyulu had directed Delhi College and Gujarat College to supply data to Kejriwal on Modi’s levels. The CIC order had come a day after Kejriwal wrote to Acharyulu saying he has no objection to authorities information about him being made public.
Kejriwal, within the letter, had puzzled why the fee wished to “conceal” data on Modi’s academic {qualifications}. Based mostly on the letter, Acharyulu directed Gujarat College to provide information of Modi’s academic {qualifications} to Kejriwal.
The Gujarat College had objected to the CIC’s order saying “irresponsible infantile curiosity” of somebody can’t change into public curiosity below the Proper to Data (RTI) Act. Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta, showing for the college, had informed the HC in February there was nothing to cover within the first place as a result of details about the PM’s levels was “already in public area” and that the college had positioned the data on its web site on a specific date previously.
In his evaluation petition, Kejriwal mentioned no such diploma of PM Modi is out there on the varsity’s web site. As an alternative, a doc known as “Workplace Register (OR)” is displayed, which is completely different from a “diploma”. “The applicant submits the mentioned diploma is just not discovered on the official web site of the Gujarat College and, therefore, the judgement suffers from the error obvious on the face of the report and allowing them would result in failure of justice,” Kejriwal mentioned in his petition.
The AAP chief additional mentioned the college’s lawyer had made an oral submission concerning the diploma being accessible on the web site of the college on the final day of listening to and that too with out offering any doc, because of which the assertion couldn’t be verified instantly on the time.
This story has been printed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content.
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Up to date: 09 Jun 2023, 11:14 PM IST